Friday, 22 May 2015

It's no secret my two young boys love My Little Pony DVD's, we've reviewed a few in the past and they're always popular. The latest release from Hasbro Studios is My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - Baby Cakes, and it is in the shops and available on digital download from Monday 25th May.

Baby Cakes cointains 5 episodes from Friendship Is Magic season 2 - Baby Cakes, Hearth's Warming Eve, The Last Roundup, The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 and Read It And Weep. The DVD is suitable for children of all ages, with a Universal rating, and a runtime of 1 hour 45 minutes. If you are lucky, your version will even have free badges!

My 6 year old especially loves this DVD. He thinks it's hilarious. He can retell the entire story, and has done, many times. In the title episode, Baby Cakes, Pinkie Pie is called on to babysit for two little ponies. She thinks it'll be fun and games, and it isn't, it's a lot harder than she expects. Everything goes wrong and there's a huge mess and my little boys laugh and laugh.

Of course everything turns out fine in the end, and there are lessons learnt by the ponies, and also hopefully a message sent to the children who watch. The My Little Pony: Frienship Is Magic series is really quite wholesome and morally good, without being too condescending.

My lads enjoyed the rest of the DVD just as much. There's a little gentle peril, and a few more lessons in how you should treat others. The animation is good and bright, and although it's very pink with a lot of female characters, the stories themselves aren't exclusively female, so my boys can enjoy them for the tales that they are.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - Baby Cakes is available from Monday 25th May and retails around £9. Hasbro Studios have very kindly offered a copy to one of my readers. Entry to the giveaway is by Gleam form below. The giveaway will end at midnight on Sunday 14th June after which no further entries will be allowed. UK entrants only please. Further terms and conditions are at the bottom of the Gleam form.

I would design a special My Little Pony for my daughter - she would be pink with siver starts on her back and she would have sparkly sliver sliver hooves! She would be called Nightshade Lovely Hooves! (my daughter has just suggested that!)

My little girl is always saying her favorite pony would be a mixture of Rarity & Rainbow Dash, (Beautiful & Sporty) so this mash up of ponies would be called Rainbow Rare & would be a white pony like Rarity but with Rainbow Dashes rainbow main & tail.

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We feature play and entertainment for children and young people from tiny to teen and beyond. Skilled at Lego building, reviewing big kid toys and mending all things trodden on. Grieving the loss of our 16 year old to suicide in August 2014. I write about this occasionally, and I collect smiles as often as possible. You can find #TBCSmiles on the blog and my Instagram every 15th of the month - everyone is welcome to share their smiles.

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